Nonno Hollywood [English translation]

Certain things hurt

You can hold them back at all

There's no way to change

What doesn't go well for you

They say that with time everything passes,

But when is it that it passes?

Because it doesn't pass me

And right now I remember

Every time that you laughed

Every time that you stopped along the street and argued

With the people at the intersections

Who honked at you

Grandpa, you've left me in a world of piles

Shopping centers in place of courtyards

A generation with new discourses

They speak English more than our dialects

I miss your whistles while you're peeing

I miss the Livorno that you can tell stories of

Tonight I close my eyes, but I won't sleep,

I won't sleep, I won't sleep

Tonight I close my eyes, but I won't sleep,

I won't sleep, I won't sleep

And I don't know

How beautiful is the countryside, and how beautiful it is to drink wine

How many women have we seen, lowering the car window

The richness is in the simple...simple...

In the simple smile in a day that's not worth anything

It seems a bit like the second time

Of a finale to forget

Like a taxi at the station that you can't reserve

We're hostages of a net that doesn't catch fish...

But catches us

Grandpa, I always dream before sleeping

I search to find a way to understand

We run among the smiles of the straightened collars

But if we fall to the ground, then they're our fucks (to give)

Life is now a bridge that can collapse on us

Life is a new idol to get rid of

Tonight I close my eyes, but I won't sleep,

I won't sleep, I won't sleep

Tonight I close my eyes, but I won't sleep

I don't know

And then

I hold on tight to your advice

Because you know that it's never easy here

For those who face the other way, still

And then

For every time that I'll want to hear you

I'll close my eyes on this reality

Grandpa, you've left me in a world of piles

A generation that I don't know how to listen to

But deep down we're stories with a thousand details

Weak and beautiufl among our errors

I miss your whistles while you're peeing

I miss the Livorno that you can tell stories of

Tonight I close my eyes, but I won't sleep,

I won't sleep, I won't sleep

Tonight I close my eyes, but I won't sleep,

I won't sleep, I won't sleep

Tonight I close my eyes, but I won't sleep,

I won't sleep, I won't sleep

And I don't know

• Artist:Enrico Nigiotti